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Actor Born: January 31, 1929 in London, England, UK Death: January 22, 2010 Biography:A luminous beauty, "Jean Simmons" was a star in her native Britain and in the U.S. who first appeared onscreen at age 14 in "Give Us the Moon" (1944), but did not become a true star until she played Estella in "David Lean"'s "Great Expectations" (1946). In 1948, she was handpicked by "Laurence Olivier" to play the doomed Ophelia in his classic version of "Hamlet" and won a Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for her efforts. Simmons traveled to Hollywood in 1950 after marrying "Stewart Granger". Their marriage lasted a decade and Simmons then became Mrs. Richard Brooks in 1960, the year he starred her in "Elmer Gantry". During the '50s and '60s, Simmons had an extremely busy film career appearing in everything from costume epics to romances to musicals to straight dramas. Simmons received an Oscar nomination in 1969 for "The Happy Ending". By the mid-'70s,... Full Biography
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